The Rite of Urban Passage - Reza Masoudi

The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

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Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-649-8 (ISBN)
37,80 inkl. MwSt
The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban Passage investigates this process by focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions, a ritual that commemorates the tragic massacre of Hussein and his companions in 680 CE. In doing so, this volume offers not only an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, but also a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Reza Masoudi is a native southwestern Iranian who lives in London, where he is currently a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin. He is an urbanist whose work focuses on the geography of crowds and protests, urban violence, and studies of religious rituals in public spaces in Iran and India.

List of Figures

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface



Introduction



PART I: THE SPATIAL MANIFESTATION OF RITUAL



Chapter 1. Towards a Framework for Spatially Studying Religious Rituals

Chapter 2. The Spatial Genealogy of Muharram Rituals



PART II: THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF RITUAL



Chapter 3. The Traditional Muharram Processions

Chapter 4. The Rite of Urban Passage

Chapter 5. Entwining Past and Present in Performed Space

Chapter 6. Reinventing Muharram Rites



Conclusion: An Urban-spatial Approach to Muharram Rituals



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-649-5 / 1800736495
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-649-8 / 9781800736498
Zustand Neuware
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